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Show 10 Kilimanjaro Giraffe (G. Camelopardalis tippelskirchi), based on specimens recently received at the Natural History Museum. A second communication from Mr. L y d e k k e r , on Dolphins from Travancore, was also read. In it the author made special reference to two specimens of the genus Tursiops, drawings and particulars of which had been supplied to him from the Trevandrum Museum. A paper by Messrs. O ld f ie ld T h om a s , F.R.S., and H aro ld S c h w a n n , F.Z.S., giving an account of a second collection of Mammals made by Mr. 0. H . B. Grant for Mr C. D. Rudd's exploration of South Africa, was read. The collection, which had been presented to the National Museum by Mr. Rudd, was made in the Wakkerstroom district of the South-eastern Transvaal and includes examples of twenty-six species. Several local subspecies were described, besides the following new Shrew from Zululand :- M yo so r ex sc l a t e r i , sp. n. Allied to Myosorex varius, but larger and darker. General colour dark bistre-brown instead of grey. Dimensions of the type (male):-Head and body 99 mm. ; tail 53 ; hind foot 16; ear 10‘5. Skull: basal length 22 ; greatest breadth across brain-case 12*5 ; length of upper tooth-series 10'5. Hab. Ngoye Hills, Zululand : alt. 250 m. Type. Male. B.M. no. 4.12.3.12. Mr. R. I. P ocock, F.Z.S., read a paper on the Greater Kudu of Somaliland, and pointed out that the northern form of Strepsi-ceros strepsiceros differed from the southern in having only about five white stripes instead of nine or ten on each side of the body. The northern form should thus rank as a distinct subspecies, for which the name chora was available. The difference in coloration seemed to be correlated with a difference of habitat, the northern form frequenting more mountainous and less thickly-wooded country than the southern, which was frequently found in the thick jungle along river-banks as well as in the hills. The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be held on Tuesday, the 7th March, 1905, at half-past Ei«ht o'clock p .m ., when the following communications will be made 1. Sir H a r r y J oh ns to n , G.C.M.G., K.C.B.-Notes on the Mammals and Birds of Liberia. 2. Mr. C r y il C ro s sl an d , F.Z.S.-The (Ecology and D ep o s its of the Cape Verde Marine Fauna. |